S.C. Code Ann. § 24-21-480
The judge may suspend a sentence for a defendant convicted of a nonviolent offense, as defined in Section 16-1-70, for which imprisonment of more than ninety days may be imposed, or as a revocation of probation, and may place the offender in a restitution center as a condition of probation. The board may place a prisoner in a restitution center as a condition of parole. The department, on the first day of each month, shall present to the general sessions court a report detailing the availability of bed space in the restitution center program. The restitution center is a program under the jurisdiction of the department.
(6) if available, fifteen dollars per week for personal items.
The remainder must be deposited and given to the offender upon his discharge.
The offender must be in the restitution center for not more than six months, nor less than three months; provided, however, in those cases where the maximum term is less than one year the offender must be in the restitution center for not more than ninety days nor less than forty-five days.
Upon release from the restitution center, the offender must be placed on probation for a term as ordered by the court.
Failure to comply with program requirements may result in a request to the court to revoke the suspended sentence.
No person must be made ineligible for this program by reason of gender.
The offender must have paid employment and/or be required to perform public service employment up to a total of fifty hours per week.
The offender must deliver his salary to the restitution center staff who must distribute it in the following manner:
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 462, Section 5; 1988 Act No. 480, Section 12; 1991 Act No. 134, Section 17; 2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 15A, eff July 1, 2009.
The 2008 amendment rewrote item (4).